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title: A boy holds a carrot between his fingertips for a horse. What could… — Farm animals and horses · tree and pragmatics
description: A boy holds a carrot between his fingertips for a horse. What could go wrong? Test 2 of lesson 28 «Farm animals and horses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was wrong.
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# Test 2 · Farm animals and horses

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A boy holds a carrot between his fingertips for a horse. What could go wrong?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** hold, go · **To what, where:** carrot, fingertips

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This is test 2 of lesson 28 «Farm animals and horses» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/everyday/28-farm-animals-and-horses/#t2).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* A boy holds a carrot between his fingertips for a horse.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:28-farm-animals-and-horses:t2:1
# text = A boy holds a carrot between his fingertips for a horse.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	carrot	carrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	fingertips	fingertip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | a boy | a carrot |  | boy's fingertips for a horse |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent carrot=Theme between fingertip=Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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*Sentence 2:* What could go wrong?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:28-farm-animals-and-horses:t2:2
# text = What could go wrong?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | could |  |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Horses never eat carrots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:28-farm-animals-and-horses:t2:o1:1
# text = Horses never eat carrots
1	Horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **eat** | present | Horses | carrots |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carrot=Patient |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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The carrot will make the horse kick out at the boy

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:28-farm-animals-and-horses:t2:o2:1
# text = The carrot will make the horse kick out at the boy
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	carrot	carrot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	kick	kick	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | future | the carrot | the horse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **kick out** | infinitive | the horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the boy | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at boy=Patient |

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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The horse might nip his fingers by mistake

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:28-farm-animals-and-horses:t2:o3:1
# text = The horse might nip his fingers by mistake
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	nip	nip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	mistake	mistake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **nip** | might | the horse | horse's fingers |  |  |  | by mistake | tree rules |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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The horse cannot see carrots

```conllu
# sent_id = question:everyday:28-farm-animals-and-horses:t2:o4:1
# text = The horse cannot see carrots
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	carrots	carrot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | can | the horse | carrots |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer carrot=Stimulus |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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